A Study Of David Harvey’s Neo-Imperialism Theory From The Perspective Of Space

After entering the 21 st century,theorists represented by Hart and Negri believed that the world had entered a "post-imperialist" era,while Marxist scholars such as Harvey and Wood faced the development of contemporary capitalism and believed that the era of imperialism had not ended,but had entered a new stage,that is,the "neo-imperialist" stage.David Harvey had written a large number of monographs and papers,promoted the development of modern geography and urban studies,and had a wide range of influence in the fields of philosophy,anthropology,sociology,political economy and so on.He combines the paradigm of geospatial theory with Marx’s critical theory of political economy,forming the historic-geographical materialism method,which is of great significance to the understanding of the new imperialism.By taking Harvey’s space theory as the logical thread,this paper intends to reveal the historical background and theoretical origin of Harvey’s new imperialist theory,clarify the ideological connotation of Harvey’s new imperialist theory,and finally form a re-thinking of his theory from the perspective of space justice.In the first part,the author first introduces the three historical backgrounds proposed by Harvey’s new imperialism theory: the power politics of unipolar hegemonic countries,the new changes of capitalism in the 21 st century and the great wave of globalization.It can be said that the drastic changes in the political and economic pattern under the background of globalization are not only the realistic context in which we study capitalism,but also the discourse background in which we discuss neo-imperialist theory.Then it explains Harvey’s geographical knowledge background and historical--geographical materialism method,and finally attempts to clarify the historical evolution of post-imperialist theory,in order to complete the background of Harvey’s new imperialist theory.In the second part,based on Harvey’s history--the academic starting point of geographical materialism,the concept of new imperialism is sorted out,and the "rupture"between imperialism and new imperialism identified by Harvey is clarified,that is,to solve the problem of what is "new" of new imperialism,and the logical starting point of Harvey’s new imperialism theory: "The ’Dual Logic’ of Capital and Territory Logic","Theoretical Essence: Deprived Accumulation","Crisis Avoidance Paradigm of Excessive Accumulation: This paper further discusses the continuation of classical Marxist primitive accumulation theory and Harvey’s theory of deprivation accumulation,and the practical attempt of the continuation of Marx’s capital crisis theory and "new Imperialism" theory of time and space repair,and further explains the continuation and development of Harvey’s new imperialism theory to Marxism,and clarify the specific connotation of Harvey’s new imperialism theory.In the last part,it first explains the space production--space layout,space distribution--space partition of neo-imperialism under the banner of neo-liberalism.It is not difficult to find that the homogeneity and abstract logic of capital elements are behind the mechanism of space production and space distribution.Harvey used the historical--geographical materialism method to clarify that the unbalanced development of space is the premise of neo-imperialist exploitation,criticized the space production mode under the banner of neo-liberalism,and criticized the deprivation accumulation and space restoration mode adopted by capitalism in the process of capital accumulation and crisis avoidance.Based on the injustice of space plunder of "backward countries" by neo-imperialism,he proposed "an alternative plan" to seek resistance,so as to realize the restoration of space justice.Although the stable imperialism proposed by Harvey has a strong idealistic color,it can be regarded as a positive attempt.Finally,this paper attempts to clarify the theory of space justice,dig deep into the existence of space subject,and explore the question of how space justice is possible through the excavation of Harvey’s new imperialist theory of space criticism and justice theory.